Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Earlier I had an email from Michael Gove, leading Conservative frontbencher. He didn't just write to me you understand, we're not even on first name terms - but none the less I got the benefit of his thoughts on the union strangle-hold over Labour.

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I so wish this was true.

However, I think it shows how skewed the Tory political perspective is if they can look at the Labour years and see a government consistently bending to the will of the unions. If only.

It's true - I was reading the Sun today (in a cafe, I didn't pay for it obviously) and their coverage was like the height of the miner's strike including describing UNITE as a 'hardline' union and a photo of the union's political officer that descibed him as a 'union thug'.

I doubt Cameron has the bottle that Thatcher had, but he certainly has her hatred for trade unions.

Or actually, the truly sorry state of affairs is that the Great British* public is once again back to the stage where it is prepared to put some stupid little know-nothing young-fogey ponce into a position of power over itself. Worse: over its own kids' education.

(* or English - I'm sure he'd still get short shrift in his native Scotland.)

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